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lead weight, tethering her ballooning ambitions to the earth

I LOVE the non-mixed metaphor! Wonderful sentence. I like the pajama word also.

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"Life, in the CCSA, began at conception and ended at birth. Then began living, which was an entirely different matter."

Damn, this gave me chills. It's exactly what I could hear pro-lifers say about life right now.

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Serialization is a bitch. I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!

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Ta, Steve and Ellis. Lorinda seems to be gaining consciousness!

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This is what happens when you let a woman reach adulthood without a prefrontal lobotomy. The CCSA has dropped the ball, big time.

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There's got to be black market mifepristone, right? Probably works as well as the state sponsored condoms.

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I got more of a vibe that this is the inciting incident which causes her to smuggle herself into the USA, and the story is going to be about her adventure making it there.

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I suspect smuggling that in would result in a death sentence.

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The puzzling thing about The Split is that the map shows the west coast in the Bad Part.

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The authors have stated that the graphic is just a graphic, not the actual Split.

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State of Jefferson ascendant

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The Jefferson promoters sell a lot merch, but it’s hard to image Yreka or Crescent City as a state capitol. Medford?

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Medford is already the party capitol, have to give it to Grant's Pass

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I’d say put it in Weed and promote the chief export, but it’s a hard town to find. The direction signs keep getting stolen.

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A well damned justified rage.

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Just started this--I LIKE IT.

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Next up: the Underground Railroad for would be escapees?

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Or a visit to an older woman who knows about natural ways for dealing with "irregular periods".....

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Why does this remind me of A Confederacy of Dunces?

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Southern folk?

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